OIL IN N.Z.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18942, 5 March 1927, Page 12

OIL IN N.Z.

NEW GERMAN 2HETHODS. New methods of survey for this location of petroleum deposits have recently been developed by German physicists and successfully demonstrated in several countries. These methods will shortly bo applied to tho Waipatiki Oilfield on thj East Coast of the North Island of Sew Zealand, controlled by Coal. Oil (N.Z.), Limited, of Sydney. air .Tohn Wanner, of Bonn University. Germany, who discovered the Waipatiki Oilfielu. recefltlv communicated with the company by cable, "recommended that a complete peopbysic.il turvey of the company's liferous areai should be made by the "Elbof methods, which wer<i highly commended by Sir Frank Heath, secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, during his recent visit to Australia and New Zealand. The dircetors have accordingly opened negotiations with Messrs Piepmeyor and Co., Ltd., who control the "Elbof" methods of electric prospecting, for a thorough geophysical survey of the Waipatilci Oilfield. It is claimed by Or. Itudolf Erahmann, of Berlin, in bis recently-published bulletin on "the practical applieatoln of geo-physlca! methods of mineral survey, with special reference to the eleetrls and magnetic methods." that petroleum reservoirs can now be located and their area* approximately delimited at a depth of SOOOtk